history and criticism

Provides a survey of the four major Beat writers: Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Gregory Corso.

Combines an array of evidence and argument drawn from years of dedicated scholarship and detective work to recover a great man of the Arthurian age.

A collection of essays in which Carolyn Heilbrun examines feminism in literary studies.

Includes Rosenthal's major essays and reviews with a few of his personal comments.

An investigation into the historical woman, Guinevere, believed the legend of King Arthur's queen.

Includes index. An account of the span of American literature from its beginnings in the seventeenth century to the writings of the 1980s.